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Careers in wild animal welfare

Careers in wild animal welfare

Questions:

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What organisations currently work in this area? What do they do that’s impactful? What could they do to have more impact?
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Is the area talent constrained or funding constrained, or something else? What are the biggest bottlenecks to helping wild animals today?
  • How might they be addressed?
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If the area is talent constrained, what skill profile is needed?
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If the area is funding constrained, how might we get more funding?
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What are the biggest unanswered questions in wild animal welfare today? What work could be done to tackle them? Is there a particular project that could be valuable for wild animals?
  • What disciplines within wild animal welfare need the most researchers?
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What are your best next steps? What do you need to learn more about, or what do you need to do, based on what you have learned?

Reading:

Extant Organisations:

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Animal Ethics
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Wild Animal Initiative
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Rethink Priorities

Impact:

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Animal Charity Evaluators, Review of Wild Animal Initiative
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Animal Ethics, Animal Ethics work in 2020

Careers:

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H. Howe, Careers in wild animal welfare
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Animal Advocacy Careers, Job Board
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J. Spurgeon, Pathways into animal advocacy research
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O. Horta, How we can best help wild animals (particularly 16:40 onwards)